Far back in April of this year, I finally delved into watching Star Trek: Picard. Upon finishing the first season and, I believe, the second season, I decided to look into some Star Trek games. I remember a few articles that Massively OP did on Star Trek Online, as well as some things about it on YouTube, so I decided to give it a try.
I don’t have much in terms of well-done record keeping at the time, but I do know I spent about 2 hours in the character creation making my character since I wanted her to not be one of the standard ones to pick from. It’s very extensive as to what one can do to their character if they choose to spend the time on it.
I picked Starfleet in Modern time for my faction. There’s three different Starfleets to choose from: Modern, TOS, and Discovery; aside from those, there’s Klingon, Romulan, and Dominion. After the character creation and the faction, it’s off to what is basically the tutorial mission. It’s a rather thorough tutorial explaining the games basics and mechanics off the bat, which is really nice! Once the tutorial mission is completed, one is free to explore, customize, socialize, and do missions at their leisure. The customization for the starships are so nice and really in-depth as well! Starfleet starts with a Miranda Class straight out of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, but I was able to make it look like it was more so out of the 24th Century instead.
Two large things to point out; the Missions (Episodes) can kind of be done out of order, for in which I wish I knew that beforehand, but it somewhat worked out. The other thing being a lot of the actors and actresses from the Star Trek Series make guest appearances in Star Trek Online, giving it a really nice depth to it all as well.
Anyway, from here my decision was to get to level 10 quickly, as that was the next rank up for a new ship. The game does a fairly decent job at easing one into more difficult content, but there are some difficulty spikes along the way as well. Each Rank does up the difficulty, but if you’re somewhat prepared, it doesn’t seem too rough at least not yet.
Thus the voyages of the U.S.S. Astera began all across the Galaxy! The name ‘Star Bunny’ came about as I’m a Viera in Final Fantasy XIV, so it felt appropriate for that to carry over. The voyages have been mostly a lot of fun, but not exactly sure what the hoobers we’re doing!